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It believes that you can beat DLL hell with sufficiently advanced tools. All I ever ended up with was a system for installing binary forms of that "A requires L 1.0, B requires L 2.0, installing one borks the other" misery, which meant I became miserable sooner but didn't actually remove the source of the misery.

Now I build things in their own directories./usr/local/ethereal will have all the shared libraries needed to run ethereal, and if Mono ever requires a different version of the library then nothi

> It believes that you can beat DLL hell with sufficiently advanced tools.

Yeah. I really wanted Fink (or something with similar promises) to work, so I have given it a try. Three times by now, I think. Every time I have ended up with some seriously hosed software setups. That is, for the software that I did get installed at all. It sucketh overmuch. Nevermore.

I've lost all hope of any binary-only open source distribution systems ever working, incidentally. Just give me the source, man.